Genius

Earlier, I decided I wanted to change my avatar. The photo I intended to use was a PNG file which took up 144 KB of space.

Here’s the photo itself followed by proof of its size (click to enlarge):

When I attempted to upload it so as to make it my avatar, eiC gave me the following error:

Fair enough.

So I opened up the photo in Photoshop and converted it to the JPG format, hoping it would shrink in size. It didn’t. It actually became larger.

Here’s the new photo after conversion to JPG, followed by proof of its size:

Well, well, well. What have we here? As shown immediately above, the size of the photo increased from 144 KB to 191 KB after being converted to JPG. But despite the converted file’s larger size, it was, paradoxically, actually accepted by eiC as my avatar!

The warning clearly indicated I should upload an avatar no bigger than 50 KB. My inital 144 KB avatar was rejected, but my 191 KB avatar was accepted? What’s going on here?

Genius

I was thinking the same thing, mate, but if that’s the case, then the error message should say that instead of complaining about the size of the file.

Luckily I didn’t spend valuable minutes trying to shrink the file down to a puny 50 KB and just went with uploading the JPG.

Hopefully the error message gets fixed; not for seasoned users like us, for the benefit of our potential new members, who may get frustrated with the misleading error message while creating their new profile here, go away, and never come back.